Literal question
For all persons born in 1981 or before
[Questions D14-D17 were asked of persons born in 1981 or before.]
(c) Did person plant or collect shells, fish or provide for own use? Write (SUBS) otherwise write (NO).
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Interviewer instructions
Economic activity last week
For all persons born in 1981 or before
138. The next set of questions, D14 to D17, apply to all persons born in 1981 or before. Look back at the year of birth you have entered for each person. For those born 1982-1996 write 'N/A' for question D14[a] and leave the rest of the column [D14-D17] blank.
139. Questions D14-D17 are concerned with how people provide for themselves, how they make their living. It is restricted to persons 15 years of age and over.
140. In the week before census night, almost everyone in Fiji will have done something to provide for himself or herself. It is your job to discover and record what each person did.
141. Ask the questions as they are set out here and on the questionnaire and talk about each member of the household until you understand what he or she did in the way of making a living last week. Make entries on the questionnaire only when you have the picture clear in your mind.
Question D14 - Type of activity last week
142. Question 14[a]
Ask,
Did this person do any work for money last week?
Money work here means:
A wage and salary job.
Business, shop, taxi/carrier business, repair shop
Grow things for sale
Raise animals for sale
Catch fish, collect shells for sale
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Provide services for money
You should write 'M' against money work. Include also persons who had a job but were either sick or on leave or did not attend work for some other reason.
For persons who did not work for money last week write 'NO' in this box.
145. For those persons responding with 'M' in D14[a], you should also complete
D14[b] Number of days worked last week.
D14[c] Did the person do any subsistence work as well
D15 Describe the task performed last week.
D16 The type of activity, service or product produced at place of work.
D17 How was the person paid
weekly wages
fortnightly/monthly salary
by sale of crops, livestock
for job done
unpaid family worker
146. Question D14[c]
Ask,
Did the person plant crops, collect shells or fish or provide anything for own use in any other way?'
If 'Yes' write 'SUBS' [subsistence] otherwise write 'NO'.
Subsistence type of work is not aimed at earning money. It includes work in food gardens or collecting of food, sea-shells, catching fish for own use. It is also communal work, assisting in cleaning village, building house, construction of road or water system in a settlement.
